THORNTON, Edward

1868 - 1957

Born on 29 June 1868. In 1939 an artist living at 'Windyridge', 2nd Avenue, Trimley St Mary, Felixstowe, Suffolk with his wife Mary, who was born on 15 October 1874. A member of the Ipswich Art Club 1942-1945 and exhibited from Windyridge, Trimley, Suffolk in 1942 two sculptures 'Irish Elk' and 'Blue Bok', in 1943 'Spent' and 'Keeping Cave' and in 1945, another two sculptures 'The Okapi' and 'Suffolk Punch'. Edward died at Trimley in 1957, aged 88.